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Indenture of Apprenticeship

The Commonwealth of Kentucky

This Indenture made this _10th_ day of _December    one thousand eight hundred and _Sixty-Six__ between __JOSEPH  MOORE a free boy  of color who     years old the       day of  18____ by J.H. COLLINS, Clerk of the county court of Allen County, in the State of Kentucky, of one part, and _SIMPSON MOORE__ of the other part;

Whereas, by an act of the General Assembly, the Judge of said Court is empowered to bind out orphans and poor children, which parents are incapable of bringing them up in moral courses, therefore the Court made the following order, to-wit:

on motion and at the request of SIMPSON MOORE it is ordered that JOSEPH  aged     years , MILVINAH  aged        and NEWTON aged      years all negroes & children of color be bound as apprentices to said SIMPSON , who is a son of JAS W. MOORE  their former owner the said SIMPSON being a suitable . The boys JOSEPH and NEWTON until they respectively  arrive to the age of 21 years to be taught the art and business of farming; And the girl MELVINAH  until she arrive to the age of 18 years to be taught the art and business of House Keeping and that the clerk of the county court prepare and enter into suitable indenture with said MOORE on behalf of said children JOSEPH MELVINAH  and NWTON conditioned according to law.

Now, therefore, this Indenture Witnesseth, that the said J.H. COLLINS, clerk of said Court, as above recited, hath put, place and bound, and by these presents, doth put, place and bind the said __Joseph  Moore as an___ apprentice to and under the said _Moore__ with _him_ to dwell, and __him _ to serve, in the condition, duty, and character of an apprentice, until the said    Joseph___ shall arrive at the age of __Twenty one___ years, fully to be completed and ended--- that, during all the said period, the said _Joseph__ shall faithfully serve the said __Moore as his, master in all lawful business, according to the best of __his_ wit and ability, and in all things honestly, orderly and obediently demean and behave ___himself__; and the said __Simpson Moore__  doth for __himself___heirs, executors, and administrators, covenant and agree with the said __J.H. Collins__ that he, the said __Simpson Moore__ will teach the said _ Joseph__ the trade, art, and business of __Farming__ and will find, provide for, and allow to the said __Joseph___  sufficient diet, wearing apparel, washing, lodging, proper medical attention, and all other things usually allowed to apprentices by good and just masters, and will treat __him__  with humanity --- that he the said __Simpson Moore__will__ at the end of the apprenticeship give  said boy Joseph  a new good suit of clothes and pay him One Hundred dollars: Provided however that if the said Moore shall teach said boy  to read & write then he shall not be bound to pay said one hundred dollars

In witness whereof, the said _Simpson Moore__ by the said J.H. COLLINS, Clerk as aforesaid, and the said __Simpson Moore____  hever hereunto set their hands and seals, on the day and year first above written

/s/ J.H. Collins Clerk Allen county cout

/s/ Simpson Moore